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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Late last night I got a comment from michael... He said...What a wonderful pleasure to stumble upon your blog while researching for pigment stores in Florence...(know any?). Your blog is beautiful!Naturally, being of an impulsive nature, I had to find the name of that pigment store in Florence tout a suite...ZECCHI! I started pawing through my fat file on Italy - mostly TuscanySuch yummy Tuscan earth colors...I could do a post on that I thought! I'm easily influenced.Camille Corot went to Italy to paint for 3 years in 1825, and everyone followed.I got to Italy for wine adventures, shoe design and a 3 week artist residency in Poppi.Ideally, I would really like a Fullbright Scholarship researching Gelato...So far I've heard niente/nuttin'... Painting while on the train is a fun thing to do in Italy.There are tons of trains and the landscape is perfect for sketchbook recording.And sometimes the trains go very slowly.You can't think about Tuscan colors without thinking of painter, Piero Della Francesca.His deep reds, ochres, siennas are the archetypal Tuscan colors that always come to mind.

You better come prepared with those Tuscan earth colors in your paintboxor just stay home!True, you can always pick them up in ZECCHI's in Florence.

Well, I hope I answered your question Michael :)

And Grazie tanto for giving me an idea for today's Paris Breakfasts post!

while we cannot nominate you for a Fulbright Scholarship (you'll have to apply for that one yourself), wouldn't it be a great idea if we tried to nominate you to the Selection Committee of the McArthur Foundation? I mean, with your portfolio you should be a prime candidate.

I once was very keen to see as many Piero della Francesca works (and other Quattrocento arists), would be about time I continue that quest (memo to myself *g*). I must confess that when I think of della Francesca, besides his dark reds his blues immediately come to mind when his name is mentioned.

Carol,Your blog is one of my absolute favorites. I especially love the Pylones watercolors. Checking for postings to your blog is the first thing I do each day--along with my French Roast coffee. Merci beaucoup!

If you're looking for ideas, may I suggest cupcakes? They're my favorite! Every year I get a cake for my daughter's birthday, but I also get her a fancy cupcake from a most excellent bakery, Icing on the Cake, in Los Gatos, CA. She's turning 3 next month, so I'll soon be breaking out my small pedestal and dome and making birthday magic for her.

Carol,Gotta' get you to our cabin in Maine, so we can go painting together! I'm sitting here, looking out at our sparkling cove...but your paintings of latemake me yearn for the Tuscan hills and towns.Luscious as always.sjerseyboy

I LOVE Tuscan colours. We get them on the hills outside our cottage on a sunny evening but it only lasts for around 10 minutes and then it's gone.So your getting comments from men late at night - I read on a great speed but he was only asking for colours, no gossip there then?

Practically the first thing we did after getting off the plane in Italy (besides getting on the train to take us closer to where we were staying) was trot over to a tiny church-museum art show that was featuring Piero Della Francesca frescoes. Reds, blues and gilded golds... Pretty breath-taking in person.

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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